Alan Wieder is an oral historian who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina and has taught at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In the last fifteen years, he has published three books and numerous articles on South Africans who fought against the apartheid regime. The latest book, Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, was published in 2013 by Monthly Review Press.
43 Ebooks by Nadine Gordimer
C.J. Driver: Messiah of the Last Days
A Messiah of the Last Days (1974) was C. J. Driver's fourth novel. A profound meditation on politics and a complex portrait of English society, it is also fast-paced and suspenseful. Its …
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Alan Wieder: Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid
Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for th …
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Christopher Hitchens: The Parthenon Marbles
The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then …
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Nadine Gordimer: Beute
Zehn meisterhafte Kurzgeschichten der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin und Anti-Apartheid-Aktivistin Nadine Gordimer Jede Erzählung ist eine Offenlegung inneren Lebens, jede voller überraschende …
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Nadine Gordimer: Die Hauswaffe
Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin Nadine Gordimer begibt sich in diesem Roman auf die Suche nach Schuld und dem politischen Erbe Südafrikas nach der Apartheid.
Ein junger Mann betritt das Haus einer …
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Nadine Gordimer: Niemand der mit mir geht
Dieser leidenschaftliche Roman folgt seinen Hauptgestalten durch den Wirbel der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderung in Südafrika. Er zählt zu den kraftvollsten Werken Nadine Gordimers, …
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Nadine Gordimer: Ein Mann von der Straße
Ein in seiner Einfachheit grandioser Roman der südafrikanischen Nobelpreisträgerin Nadine Gordimer.
Julie ist eine Tochter aus wohlhabendem Hause. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Als ihr …
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Nadine Gordimer: Keine Zeit wie diese
Fast zwanzig Jahre nach dem Ende der Apartheid blickt Nadine Gordimer auf Möglichkeiten und vergebene Chancen der neuen Ära. Tief taucht sie ein in das Leben eines Paares, das, gerade noch als …
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Nadine Gordimer: Ein Spiel der Natur
Hillela ist eine ungewöhnliche Frau. Sie ist völlig un- beeindruckt von dem Rassismus, der sie in dem apart- heidsgeprägten Südafrika umgibt. Schon als Kind muss sie ihr Internat in Rhodesien …
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Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Burger’s Daughter
In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman’s slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father’s death in prison leaves …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Late Bourgeois World
Liz Van Den Sandt’s ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues.Now Liz has been asked to …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: No Time Like the Present
Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks – with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Pickup
When Julie Summers’ car breaks down in a sleazy street, a young Arab garage mechanic comes to her rescue. Out of this meeting develops a friendship that turns to love. But soon, despite his attempts …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: My Son’s Story
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap; but the father is no ordinary man, and the family, threatened by the affair, is no …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Guest of Honour
James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country’s …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: World of Strangers
Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family’s publishing company, Toby moves …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Life Times
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Get a Life
When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Conservationist
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: None to Accompany Me
Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Lying Days
Nadine Gordimer’s first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: House Gun
A successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black
This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer’s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Sport of Nature
A bold, sweeping story of one girl’s rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga’s …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Telling Times
Nadine Gordimer’s life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Occasion for Loving
Jessie and Tom Stilwell keep open house. Their code is one of people determined to maintain the integrity of personal relations against the distortions of law and society.The impact on their home of …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Living in Hope and History
Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as ‘a modest …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Jump and Other Stories
In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist’s deserted wife …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: July’s People
For years, it has been what is called a ‘deteriorating situation’. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family – liberal whites – are rescued from the …
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Gordimer Nadine Gordimer: Loot
A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an …
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Nagib Machfus: Echo meines Lebens
In dieser Sammlung fängt Nagib Machfus Momente und Gedanken ein, die ihn sein Leben lang schon beschäftigen. Die Erinnerungen an entscheidende Augenblicke, an verpasste Gelegenheiten, an falsche, …
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Nadine Gordimer: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
An extraordinary achievement, Telling Times reflects the true spirit of the writer as a literary beacon, moral activist, and political visionary. Never before has Gordimer, awarded the Nobel Prize fo …
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Nadine Gordimer: Mejor hoy que mañana
Mejor hoy que mañana narra el devenir de una familia mixta de un barrio de Johannesburgo desde los años noventa hasta finales del 2009.
Terminado el apartheid, la mayoría de ciudadanos no han visto …
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Dugmore Boetie: Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost
A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds.
The picaresque hero of this novel, …
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Albert Memmi: The Colonizer and the Colonized
Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation thro …
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Joseph Roth: Radetzky March
The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is "full of psychological penetration and tragic force" (The New Yorker).The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s …
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